A Season In St.Anton

Moonlight hike :)

2010-04-04T10:56:00.000-07:00

When the full moon passes, a lot of seasonnaires in St.Anton tend to do a thing called the Moonlight hike from St. Christoph up to the top of the Galzig lift in St.Anton. So last Tuesday a couple of friends and I decided to give it ago before the season was over, it was possibly one of the best experiences of the whole season and something that I've wanted to do for a while.
You basically hike up piste number 8 all the way to the top and it took us about 50minutes to complete but we carried on going to the top of the Zammemoos lift so we could see over both St.Anton and St.Christoph.

Everyone ready to go in St.Christoph

St.Anton in the moonlight!

Full Moon

Exhausting and sweaty probably sums up the hike pretty well but the views on the way up are just incredible, it feels like the piste has been flood lit because of the light coming from the full moon is so bright. We were especially lucky as there wasn't a cloud in sight and the views from the top were just amazing.
Once at the top we sat with a bottle of Jager and few beers just enjoying the views before skiing down the freshly groomed pistes... Who needs first lift when you can ski on them hours after they've been pisted!

Shay celebrating!

A few of us at the top.

Definitely something to tick off the list if your doing a season out here or even if your holiday lands on a full moon week, but I would definitely recommend a lot of layers as you may sweat like a bitch on the way up but once you get there it is seriously cold! Oh and plenty of water is also advised, along with an alcoholic drink to celebrate with at the top!

Season is drawing to a close now :( so I'm trying to get loads of things like this done before I go! I'll keep you posted ciao x

2010-04-03T02:09:00.000-07:00

Check this out...

This is absolutely amazing! Ciao x

2010-03-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 24rd March
The sun has been shinning for the past couple of days here in St.Anton so a big group of us decided to take a trip up to Rendl beach with a picnic and boozes today! Sunbathing up at Rendl beach watching the riders in the park, getting slowly burnt or in my case just staying the same shade of pale! It has been a really good day and looks like most of our days left in St.Anton are going to be spent like that, as the snow is slowly starting to disappear but I think I can handle a couple of relaxed weeks up at Rendl!

Nick and Lou

Chase being ... chase

Filming of the 'Chalet girl' is coming to a close this week as the shooting moves to Garmisch in Germany so tomorrow night tamsin and felicity are coming out with us to say goodbye and celebrate their time in St.Anton.

Thursday 25th April
Amy and Charley's friends arrived this week, which meant 4 smelly boys gatecrashing our flat, eating our food and drinking our boozes and not forgetting the midnight surprise 'snuggles'! Ben, Jimmy, Olly and Maz have been a real good laugh and I'll be gutted to see them leave on Tuesday. We've had some wicked apres sessions, some injuries :( but all in all an epic time. They have also been teaching me how to snow board and I think I may have been converted for the rest of the season...

Ciao x

By the way, I've just looked out the window and the snow has started to fall in St.Anton!!!

Heli-skiing anyone?

2010-03-20T12:13:00.001-07:00

HELI-SKIING!

On Thursday 18th March I was lucky enough to get the chance to go Heli-skiing in Zurs! If that wasn't enough I also got to do it for free, as Rainer a ski instructor friend of mine had a spare seat in the heli and his guests were generous enough to let me go with them. To say it was the best skiing day of my life is an understatement, it had snowed the previous two days and then on Thursday morning the heavens opened and a blue bird day presented itself, PERFECT CONDITIONS, FRESH TRACKS and AMAZING VIEWS!
I just want to say a massive thank you to Bryan, Mark and Rainer the guys I went with, it was an amazing experience and I had a brilliant day with them.
The day started with a beer while we waited for our slot, we were the last slot of the day around 12:30, which mean't we had the mountain to ourselves. Then we were explained the safety procedures after which we were in the helicopter looking at these amazing views...

Rainer pre-heli-ski!

Bryan, Mark and myself about to set off.

At this point I could not hold my excitement in, we were all like little children at Christmas. In total it took about ten minutes to get to our drop off, from the helicopter you could see most of the Alberg; Lech; Zug; Zurs. The views were just incredible!

Rainer and myself at the top!

The Views from the top!

Rainer was an incredible guide and led us down a route which was fresh tracks all the way to the bottom, if that wasn't enough we also got to do some tree skiing near the bottom. All in all the skiing was amazing, an hour of fresh powder skiing what more could you ask for?
To round the day off Bryan and Mark treated us to Lunch in The Burg in Oberlech! Once again I want to say thank you to the guys, for the best day skiing of the season!

Ciao x

2010-03-16T00:42:00.001-07:00

Last night Fin and Sharky two guys in resort had a little DJ battle in Scottys, sharky played this song which I haven't heard in ages, reminded me of Brighton and my best friend Hannah Coultrup!
Hometown Glory remix - High Contrast, Enjoy ....

Ciao x

P.s has been snowing for two days, today is a total white out. Looks like a powder day tomorrow!

2010-03-14T08:18:00.000-07:00

Okay so I don't know if anyone back home has heard that currently there is a film being shot in St.Anton called the 'Chalet Girl', starring Felicity Jones, Bill Nighly, Tamsin Egerton, Sophia Bush and Ed Westwick to name a few.
Over the past month both Felicity and Tamsin have been working at our chalet to get experience for the film and to see what its really like to be a chalet girl! Both of the girls were really good fun and are now back in resort filming as we speak.
Now most of St.Anton's seasonnaires are applying for extra roles in the film and on Wednesday I got my chance to be an extra in the film. I know what your thinking how exciting, meeting all the actors and being in the film, it couldn't get any better right? Well think again guys, I started at 2 0'clock in the afternoon but didn't start filming till 5, then had another 2 hour break filmed a little bit more then another 3 hour break and then home time at Midnight which in total accumulated to 5 minutes worth of the film and 60 euros in my bank account. So all in all we spent most of the day like this:

Sun bathing, drinking and chatting.

Dil, me and Shay

Stu, trying to smuggle boozes on to the set.

To sum the day up, it was a constant supply of free food, chilling out with friends, sun bathing and the odd bit of work. It was also great to see felicity and Tamsin again, but maybe not something I will be jumping at the chance to do again! I'll keep you updated on all scandals from the film...ciao x

Hiking

2010-03-08T13:05:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we decided to go hiking to do the off piste valley from Maroikopfle to Langon its about a 30 minute hike to the top from the highest lift in Stuben.
So ten happy riders set off from St.Anton to Stuben in search of fresh tracks...

Pre-hike, all smiles!

To say I thought I was going to die on the way up is a huge understatement, I managed to munch my way through my mars bar in the first ten minutes and also rinse my only supply of water! But once you get to the top the stunning views and sense of accomplishment are totally worth it and of course the 40 minutes of pure fat powder that await you is also just a slight added bonus.

Finally at the top, exhausted!

Unfortunately the powder wasn't that great as the wind and cold had created a hard crust over night but there were still some good patches to be found, it was definitely worth it and also something that will be done again before the end of the season.

The Survivors!

Ciao x

Frankie and Sam!

2010-03-02T09:26:00.000-08:00

The past couple of weeks have been awful for me in St.Anton, hence the reason for not blogging much! My two best friends and fellow chalet girls in the FS chalet got injured on the same day and have had to go home as they can no longer work :(
I can safely say I was absolutely devastated when they left and it still isn't the same without them, but I've just had some good news from them, they both assure me that they will be back out at the end of march to celebrate the end of season once all there injuries have fully healed!!!! So I'm a very happy girl again!
The Injuries:
Frankie managed to rip her cruciate ligament in her knee while speeding down Schlinder and Sam was going all pro boarder on me and ruined it all by breaking and dislocating her wrist! Watching the doctors re-locate her wrist was one of the most gruesome things I have ever seen but Sam was so high on morphine she just managed to laugh all the way through bless her. They were both incredibly brave and I miss them millions.
But on the bright side of things I have two new chalet girls now called Amy and Charley and they are also very lovely!

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Anyways just to keep you updated the snow has graced St.Anton with its presence and yesterday was an awesome powder day and its due to keep falling for the rest of the week, so for anyone who's coming out to St.Anton soon your in for a treat!

Ciao for now guys x

Jack Wills Land Rover Tour

2010-02-23T01:33:00.000-08:00

So the JW boys have been and left St.Anton and it feels slightly quiet without them now :( Had such a brilliant time, skiing, apres skiing and teaching them how to deal with lots of Jager!

They also delivered lots of party pants, JW Beanies and of course hundreds of stickers to help sticker up St.Anton! Here are a few photos of there time in St.Anton:

Freddie and Fliss

The new Jack Wills beanies!

JW Seasonnaires - St. Anton from Jack Wills on Vimeo.

Just wanted to say a massive thank you to Olly and Freddie for coming to visit me, as we had an amazing time and good luck to them on the rest of the tour!

Ciao! x

Mayhem of half term week!

2010-02-19T11:16:00.000-08:00

So this week St.Anton has been rammed with families over taking the lifts, restaurants and slopes. So to avoid the mayhem of half term week myself and various other seasonnaires have been doing as much as possible to get away from skiing on overcrowded pistes and have found various alternatives to skiing, first of which was Rendl Beach!
At the beginning of this week it was a perfect sunshine day, the kind that just makes you want to lie around on deck chairs all day on rendl beach and that's exactly what we did!

The lovely Craig and myself just showing off our amazing goggles!

Their is no better way to enjoy a day like this one without a good couple of bottles of white and of course some beer just to make the day just that little bit better.

Doesn't that view just make you jealous?

The day basically consisted of watching some pretty sick riders do their thing in the snow park and this particular guy was amazing!

VALENTINES DAY BROWNIE....YUMMY!

Wednesday 17th
Landeck - The fancy dress mission!
What can I say about Landeck apart from the fact that it is the most depressing alpine town in Europe? It felt like I'd landed in some post soviet eastern European town and I think its safe to say I will not be venturing back any time soon. Plus my fancy dress mission was unsuccessful!

But on the bright side, I did manage to borrow some fancy dress items off a friend and was able to pull something together at the last minute for SLAGS, HAGS AND PORNSTARS at Bar Cuba. My theme may have been slightly more Mardi gras but of course had a rather slaggy vibe.

Me and my gorgeous flat mate sam!

A mixture of pimps, cross dressers, slags and a mardi gras festival?

It's safe to say the so far half term week hasn't been too painful and we've definitely managed to find various distracts! Now I'm looking forward to the Jack Wills Land Rover Tour which arrives tonight!

So I'll keep you posted on the weekends antics, in the mean time I hope your all jealous as its snowing!!!!!!!!!! Ciao x

You've gotta love a onesie!

2010-02-13T03:39:00.000-08:00

For those of you that aren't sure what a Onesie is, it's a fantastic 80's trend - of one piece ski suits that should definitely be pulled out every once in a while just for comedy value!
There are some friends of a friend that are staying out in resort at the moment and yesterday they decided to venture to Lech and show them how to pull off a good 80s onesie, I met up with them at the mooserwirt for some apres ski and its safe to say that the onesie was attracting it's fair share of attention:

Good old onesie, one of the guys was even offered 100euros for his onesie!

It was a brilliant day, blue skies, skiing in Rendl, eurotrash apres ski at the Moose which carried on to bar cuba. Then work 'slightly' merry before continuing the party in Cuba after work!

Bex and myself doing our fair share of forfeits outside the Moose.

A very excitable drew as he had just invested in this new Mooserwirt t-shirt for the season. Drew is amazing and sure knows how to throw his fair amount of shapes around the dancefloor or in yesterdays case the mooserwirt's tables.

Although today I'm feeling slighty worse for wear :( it was definitely a good day and now I'm going up on the mountain for some good old mountain air and a little deck chair sunbathing!

Ciao x

Rodel Yodelling!

2010-02-13T02:37:00.000-08:00

In St.Anton there is a big toboggan run that opens on Tuesday and Thursday nights underneath the Nasserein lift, so on our day off this week the Flexiski team decided to have a bit of a team bonding session! I can safely say that is was one of the best nights of the season and I would definitely recommend it! We arrived at the bubble lift at 7:30 with our Rodel's in hand and set off up the Nasserein lift...
After a quick drink at the top and safety talk from Tom which consisted of 'No broken bones please we have work in the morning' we set off down the toboggan run to the restaurant half down called the Rodelalm. I can't begin to explain how much fun tobogganing is, it has to be one of the best things to do here in St.Anton!

The Flexiski team ready to set off.

Frankie, me and sam.

If I were to do it again which I probably will, I would definitely do the following:

1) Dress yourself in full ski gear - it is freezing up on the mountain at night time!
2) Forget putting any kind of make-up on, as you will finish looking like a drowned rat.
3) Tuck your ski pants into your socks.
4) DO NOT WEAR UGG BOOTS...IT IS A SERIOUS SCHOOL BOY ERROR!
5) Remember to slow down on the hairpin corners, as you will go flying.

As you can probably tell I did make a few of those mistakes and suffered slightly, when we arrived at the Rodelalm restaurant half way down for dinner, I had snow inside my boots, my face was covered in snow and I think its safe to say that the snow skirt on my ski jacket does not work!

Dinner was amazing and there was peach and pear schnapps flowing around the table all night!

As you can tell pear was not a favourite amongst the group!

Then it was time to Rodel down... and after all the schnapps it wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world and proved a little bit too much for my good friend Sam.

On the second leg I'd finally learnt my lesson and tucked my ski pants into my socks!

I think everyone that is in St.Anton should definitely try it out as its absolutely fantastic, everyone was well and truly gone by the time we reached the bottom and there were a few chalet staff that weren't feeling too great the next day!
Ciao Hannah x

2010-02-03T12:46:00.001-08:00

The snow has finally arrived in St.Anton and over the past couple of days we've had a huge snow fall :). So tomorrow is definitely going to be an off piste powder day and blue sky has been forecast so I'm crossing my fingers for a perfect day!

My parents arrived in resort today and with them came a huge stock of toiletries! Now everyone on a season, especially girls, will know that your favourite shampoo and mascara are hard to find in resort when your shopping from one small section of a understocked supermarket! So I was a very happy girl when I got my John Freida shampoo and YSL mascara. But of course its amazing to see my parents and spend a good few days on the mountains with them.

Tonight there are various birthday celebrations in resort and a few fancy dress themes knocking about so I'm sure there will be some interesting antics and more importantly photographic evidence to follow!

Ciao x

Australia Day

2010-01-28T03:00:00.000-08:00

What a day! Speaking as a true Home and Away fan, Australia day couldn’t have come sooner. We all turned from Brits into Ozzies after two or three Jagers.
The day consisted of a short visit to one of the few Ozzie owned bars in St Anton, Fang House and then we caught the last bubble up to Krazy Kanguruh. Immense dancing, too many VB’s and barbeques in the snow (i.e. men standing outside in the snow, wearing board shorts, wife beaters and flip-flops pretending to enjoy themselves while freezing their arses off!).

So the beer and the jager were flowing and the KK was rammed, lots of burgers, dancing on tables, shots, old school Australian tunes and tone deaf singing from any seasonnaire and holiday maker in the place.

Getting into the Australian spirt!

There was a fair few patriotic Australians around, one being my friend Craig who got the bus up to the Krazy kanguruh at 11:05, wearing his board shorts and wife beater and didn’t leave till 21:45. It was a hardcore effort by a true Australian.

Craig a true Australian!

The KK has a tradition. Any girl who shows off her boobs, gets a free bottle of Champers. And inevitably there were a few boobs on show. The new Bar girl got them out for the boys, although by mistake. Trust me, there were few happy men in that bar!
Slowly the KK came to a close and we had to ski home – eek! One guy decided to run home with poles and then did seven forward rolls to finish his dash but Chalet girl F found it a bit too challenging; skis, poles, glasses and hat were lost, but as she found herself 4 meters in front of a roaring piste basher...close to death...fear not, Ali came to the rescue. Chalet girl F was a bit shambolic and snow covered when she reached the bottom but after a pizza and reaching the arms of a hot man, she was OK – phew.

Chalet Girl F, feeling slightly worse for wear trying to eat her pizza!

Closing time at the KK...

The rest of the night was a bit of a blur, but who knew the Brits could celebrate an Ozzie day so well? That’s when good neighbours become good friends.
Ciao x

Flaming Sambucas anyone?

2010-01-27T08:14:00.000-08:00

The past week has been absolutely mental in the chalet, we've had some wicked guests who were great fun! Dare I say the best guests yet...
So one night I was clearing up after dinner and 6 English guys were still sat at their table and asked if I could help them finish a bottle of Sambuca, obviously I could not decline their generous offer. But there was a slight catch, their drinking plans including flaming the sambuca into each others mouths. This was the out come;

Not quite sure if their is any skill to doing this but basically you hold the sambuca in your mouth, but your head back, light the sambuca and then add cinnamon which is what ignites the flame.
So after watching closely and a few glasses of wine, I finally decided that it was time I tried it out and thankfully it was a success!

Sophies turn...

Requirments of the FS Chalet girls, 1) first and most importantly be able to administer a shot of flaming sambuca.

John after a few attempts at the flaming Sambuca!

I Think this is without a doubt my new party trick! Ciao guys x

Song of the season...

2010-01-21T08:23:00.000-08:00

Love this song!

Day off and our trip to Lech!

2010-01-13T03:04:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was our day off and so after a cheeky lie in, the Flexiski girls decided to venture over to Lech. The weather was absolutely perfect with bright blue skies, and so we decided to do half of the 'white ring', a three-hour loop that swings around Lech, Zug, Oberlech and Zürs in one big circuit. The previous day it had snowed quite heavily, so the snow was really great. The best thing about the White Ring is that people of all abilities can enjoy it - advanced skiers can drop off the side of the piste cutting corners and hit some sneaky bits of powder, or you can follow the pistes and meet up at the bottom. All in all, it was an amazing chilled day shooting round the Arlberg.

Sam half way through 'White Ring'...very happy as it was a perfect day with blues all round :)

If you look on the far left of the picture you can see one skier on the start of the ring.

Frankie and myself at the top of the world being tourists!!

Me and Sam

Back in Taps, enjoying a beer with some of the crystal staff.

Sam being a little bit special playing in the snow...bless her!

After a fantastic days skiing (and a good apres session!) we decided to go to "Underground on the Piste" for dinner. The restaurant serves all your favourites with some great live music involving a bannana and a lot of action... I'll let you imagine the rest! We had a really good time with plenty of red wine flowing round the table and some food that (thank god) wasn't chalet food! After being a little bit merry we ventured down to Scotty's and got dragged into to playing Jengameister!...
Basically its just an ordinary game of Jenga but if you knock it over on your turn you have to buy a round of Jager for everyone that is playing, hence the intense faces on the photos!

Getting a tiny bit worried but thankfully I didn't lose once! Although that poor guy in the corner knows he is going to have to buy the next round, poor guy!

Brilliant day off and counting down the days till my next one! Ciao x

Krazy Kanguruh

2010-01-11T06:36:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we had a manic change over in the chalet and didn't finish till around 4o'clock so after we decided to go for a few drinks at the Krazy Kanguruh but because we finished so late we had to get the bus up there. We then thought it would be a clever idea to bin bag it back down the slope after, so after quite a few cheeky beers and dancing on tables we decided to head back down to dinner. This is what happened...

What you can’t see near the end of the video is that Ali being really clever crashed into me losing both his skis and my bin bag which resulted in getting absolutely soaked and a ski piggy back down the rest of the slope to the bottom. I think it's safe to say I'm going to be sticking to skiing down from now on!

Lambert the token welsh friend, throwing his most aggressive dance moves around in the KK after being stranded in Stuben as he missed the last lift! which then cost him a nice 45euro taxi ride back to St.Anton.

Just getting ready to head down, I can tell you I definitely wasn't smiling half way down when my jeans were soaked my goggles were no where to be seen and my hands were like ice blocks. In hindsight it was very amusing for everyone else but I think I've learnt my lesson...your supposed to actually ski to apres ski bars!

Pre-disaster, all smiles!

All in all it was a very amusing evening off! Day off tomorrow and think a few of us are skiing over to Lech which should be good as the snow isn't too great here in St.Anton. Ciao x

Hangover day....

2010-01-04T05:29:00.001-08:00

The past couple of weeks have been manic here in St.Anton so when flexiski were given there day off on Monday it turned into an epic PJ day/recovery from the night before. Most of our friends were at Kandahar until the wee hours of the morning on Sunday night as it was a seasonnaire's night, 20euros in and free drinks all night it got very very messy.
So as you can imagine everyone was feeling very worse for wear, so to recover everyone came round to our flat and piled into the bunkbeds to watch TOPGUN.

The flexiski staff now have a new found appreciation for Tom Crusie and the theme tune! I believe this is film is definitely one of the greatest films ever!
Here is a cheeky link so you can appreciate Topgun for a couple of minutes:

But after our day of sleeping and eating we did make it out on to the hill the next day and spent the day in Rendl enjoying the sunshine and doing a cheeky bit of sunbathing with our packed lunches up on Rendl Beach...

Anyway hope you all enjoying the snow in England, by the sounds of it you've got more than us right now! Ciao x

New Year!

2010-01-02T10:07:00.000-08:00

Happy New year everyone, hope you all had an amazing New Year and kicked off the year with a bang. St.Anton was mad it was basically one huge party in the street with fire works going off literally next to you, followed by a heavy one in Bar Cuba and an awful breakfast service the next day. I got in to work in the morning at around 8 and stumbled up to the kitchen to find the chef asleep on the counter and one of the other chalet girls virtually passed out against the dishwasher! Its safe to say that everyone felt very rough indeed, so we all ended up sleeping the rest of the day away and watching Dirty Dancing before starting work again in the evening.

There was some cheeky fancy dress going on the theme was supposed to be 80's but all I could rustle together was something that looked slightly nautical, all in all it was an amazing night! one of the best new years I've ever had!

Enjoying a little bit too much champagne! About 5 seconds later it was all over my hair :(

Caitlin at approximatley 12:30, absolutely hammered and ready for bed!

Trying to sort Caitlin out...

Little bit worried that she wasn't going to carry on!

Very merry in Cuba!

The New Year has brought many hangovers to St.Anton but its also brought SNOW! which is great news, hopefully it'll snow for the rest of the week so we can start the year with some powder skiing. Ciao for now guys! x

Merry christmas

2009-12-27T08:15:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, Xmas has been in St.Anton and has left its mark! Xmas eve was a huge night out and started in taps at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and ended up in Piccadilly! Here are a few snaps to show you what happened...

The flexiski staff prepping for xmas day

losing the flour fight after making mince pies on xmas eve!

Xmas eve in Scotty's...

On Xmas day, the flexiski chalet and the kaluma chalet joined forces and wondered up the moutain in the blizzard for champagne and a very filling lunch in the Krazy Kanguruh!

I had an amazing xmas, but now im absolutley knakered! It's been a crazy couple if weeks here in St.Anton! Now im looking forward to an amazing new year. Merry xmas everyone! Ciao x

Christmas is Coming!

2009-12-23T03:26:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, hope your all okay!
Just thought I'd give you a quick update on the snow, the past couple of days have been amazing and I've done some of my first powder skiing of the season and hopefully there will be many more days like that to come! the snow is getting soooo much better and were due more over this week, so its looking good for everyone that is here for Christmas!

This is the Chalet that I work in, It's called the Amalien Haus and its in a brilliant location right in the centre of town.

Just some cheeky table dancing in the KK!

A Nice merry walk down from the KK...

Just thought I'd post you a few cheeky photos from some recent adventures! Looks like I've been well and truly Jagered on some of them, theirs loads more to come but I'm having difficulties with my camera at the moment, but I'll upload them as soon as I've sorted it out.

Rendl opens!

2009-12-19T05:53:00.001-08:00

Hey guys, just thought I'd update you all on the snow etc, unfortunately we're in need of some snow desperately and everyone out here has there fingers crossed for some in the next couple of days.

But on a more exciting note, Rendl opened yesterday and as usual the sun was shining over there. The snow was good but by the time we'd got there all the powder had been eaten up but all in all it was a good afternoon, followed by a late one in the krazy kanguruh!

I had the guests from my chalet dancing on the tables in their ski boots and of course doing some cheeky jagerbombs before dinner. For those of you that dont know the Krazy Kanguruh or the KK as we call it, it's quite a famous apres ski bar in st.anton which is situated on one of the last runs down back into resort. And last night there was some very amusing skiing back to the chalet after the afternoon of beer and jager!
Yesterday we also put up our xmas tree and spent the morning decorating it, so now the whole chalet is feeling very festive and getting a little bit excited about xmas. Frankie(another chalet host from our chalet) and myself are also geting excited as our families are coming out for christmas tomorrow and were looking forward to a couple of all expenses paid days on the mountain!
Heard down the grapevine that England has quite a bit of snow, probably looking better than here at the moment, enjoy sledging! Ciao!

Peaking and Troughing

2009-12-16T03:13:00.000-08:00

Hi guys I’m Hannah and this season i am a JW Seasonnaire in St. Anton. I’ve been been here for 2 weeks now and I’m having an amazing time.
The first few weeks have been full of highs and lows, hence the title peaking and troughing, also another phrase for epic hangovers. I’ve been introduced to jager milks which are the most foal shot I have ever had, but have also fallen in love with what is so far the drink of the season vodka, lime and sodas! Jager flows like water out here and is even on tap in most places. Are current locals are Bar Cuba and Scotty’s as we literally roll out of our accommodation into those bars, although for some insane après ski we turn to the KK and the newly refurbished Taps and not to forget the Mooserwirt!
On one of the first few days of the season my friends and I went to this famous procession known as Krampus in St. Anton where we had plenty of Mulled Wine and watched these insanely scary ‘creatures’ i.e locals dressed up as monsters walk down the street. As they walked down the street they attempted to whip everyone to rid them of any evil for the start of the season although I don’t think a lot of people will be saints this season. I cannot begin to explain how much the wiping hurts but in hindsight it was a lot of fun although slightly weird!

As its the start of the season we’ve been hitting the après and bar scene pretty hard with all the openings we’ve been invited to, one of our favourites was Bar Cuba’s Black and Bright themed Seasonnaire’s party, it was an amazing night with a variety of costumes and one that we have to mention was our friend’s bright pink morph suit, he was fully dedicated to the fancy dress vibe, whereas my costume consisted of a lot of glow paint and some good old fashioned retro headbands.

Currently the snow is okay we’re praying for more but it’s good for the moment, we’ve been pretty lucky and have been out on the hill most days getting to know the area. It’s getting insanely cold though we had minus 15 degrees the other day but we were packing plenty of layers! I’ll keep updating you on the snow as we go along, at the moment not all the lifts are open but it looks like by the end of the week they will be. Were all very excited about Rendl opening on Friday and can’t wait to check out the new Rendl bar!

Anyway guys I’ll keep you updated on what’s going on in resort and the snow until then ciao!